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THEATRE SUPERSTITIONS
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Break a leg -theatrical equivalent to good luck.
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As indicated by Steppenwolf Theater Company, the saying has an assortment of different sources. It might originate from the old Greek routine with regards to stepping feet as opposed to acclaiming, the Elizabethan expression for bowing (to break the leg), the Vaudevillian routine with regards to keeping on-screen characters offstage (to break the leg of the drape was to enter the playing space, and hence, get paid), or from understudies wishing on-screen characters would "break a leg" so that their backups could perform.
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DON’T SAY “MACBETH!”
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This has for some time been a piece of the on-screen character's old stories, and there are many hypotheses about when, where, and why entertainers began maintaining a strategic distance from the play's title—rather alluding to the dramatization as "The Scottish Play." The History Channel refers to a few cases of strange and sudden deaths amid exhibitions of "Macbeth," recommending a revile that goes back to the seventeenth century. Some trust that the play's anecdotal spells—"“Double, double toil and trouble…… " and so forth.,— are true precedents of black magic, and in that lies the threat of talking the title so anyone can hear. On the off chance that an on-screen character goofs and says the lethal expression, there is a cure: Exit the theater, turn three times, spit, and articulate a Shakespearean affront (or a similarly disgusting irreverence).
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